US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

"we begin bombing in five minutes"

re: gallup. His approval was even slightly underwater in a few surprising states, like Mississippi and South Carolina, but only by a couple of percentage points.

Clearly there are plenty of things he considered compromising, including the porn star. He wouldn't have paid her off otherwise. I think Trump didn't realize that there'd just be zero consequences for his worst actions.

xps

i have no stomach for any more of this shit tbh . none of it matters , see you all in the midterm thread .

^^good approach

Put another way, it is complete legit to believe both that many of Trump's heinous acts have not had the consequences you would expect and that the Russians have some kind of leverage over him. One doesn't cancel out the other.

more xps

He will talk about North Korean nuclear threat in a "strong and serious way,”

This is straight up pandering to an issue they know they can 'win', because it can be cast in binary terms with the USA as the innocent, strong good guy and DPRK as the evil threat. "Eye-opening" is also a reaction to a powerful fear, and powerful fear is also "mind-closing".

"do you ever use trump tweets as an 'eye opener'?"

Apparently, the new line on McCabe is that he was forced out due to his mishandling of the Clinton email server investigation, not unlike the excuse made re: Comey.

The world revolves around Trump, but Trump still revolves around Hillary.

I believe in the sold his soul to Satan hypothesis because I’ve never seen someone get away with this much stuff.

oh cool

Today, Congressman Paul Gosar contacted the U.S. Capitol Police, as well as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking they consider checking identification of all attending the State of the Union address and arresting any illegal aliens in attendance.

— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) January 30, 2018

AG Sessions standing at the door checking IDs. please please please let this happen.

Paul thinks it would be so frickin hot if a scene from his favorite dystopia-porn smut film played out for real.

Gosar then giddily took to Twitter to announce to everyone that he did it.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-wants-to-prosecute-mueller

haha he 100 percent hopes a 9/11 happens soon https://t.co/aCu7MdI5sX

— slackbot (@pareene) January 30, 2018

Only seven more years of this. pic.twitter.com/4e22CYN29K

— Will Sloan (@WillSloanEsq) January 30, 2018

xp what the fucking fuck

What if, God forbid, somebody were to throw a brick through your window? Now we wouldn't want that to happen, would we?

the obama crash?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/30/us-stock-futures-dow-data-earnings-and-politics-on-the-agenda.html

I can't follow the plot anymore
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/internal-justice-department-probe-eyes-mccabes-role-in-final-weeks-of-2016-election/2018/01/30/db2ea8f0-05c7-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_mccabe-420p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5b9fdf1081a6

xp

Yep, people are starting to realize the bull market is getting rather long in the tooth.

I’m not doing the research but 99% chance that Oswalt nonsense is the result of someone specifically asking him if Trump should see the movie and he said sure

i know it doesn't matter but i will take any opportunity to post videos of scott pruitt squirming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQUAwm6xQT4

too bad whitehouse blew his potential Viral Moment of the Day! by accidentally triggering a voice recording of something about hubris, when it seems that he meant to cap off his viral moment with the audio recording of pruitt saying what he said.

by accidentally triggering a voice recording of something about hubris

i know this is way too charitable to sen. whitehouse, but we can't discount the possibility that he did it on purpose and was trying to make a very meta artistic statement

"If we're giving free water and food, that means that families are not going to supermarkets to buy. It is affecting the economy of Puerto Rico. So we need to create a balance."

Meanwhile: the gov't reports that nearly a 3rd of PR still lack electricity.https://t.co/ajq3NRUdHL

— ProPublica (@ProPublica) January 30, 2018

America is cool

cool to starvation

Problem with the stock market as any sort of useful metric right now is that it is so wildly overvalued that it can afford to fall down several hundred points and still be astronomically high.

”If we're giving free water and food, that means that families are not going to supermarkets to buy. It is affecting the economy of Puerto Rico. So we need to create a balance."

what a fucking garbage country this is

great post frogbs (a ways back) but I am afraid that this bit:

the formation of a special council which will only disband upon the death of every remaining Clinton

...seriously underestimates the lifespan of anti-Clinton sentiment.

if the piss tape doesn't exist surely someone in the deep state is busy using our government funded science to make a fraudulent one soon, right? RIGHT? PLEASE?

Look at it this way: based upon what you know of the man, do you think the odds favor the existence or the nonexistence of a piss tape?

Who fucking cares about that bullshit. We learned he cheated on his wife with Stormy Daniels and no one even blinked. They’d have to prove that he knew of it and Russia was holding it over his head for it to mean anything.

lol hes probably peeing all over himselff like MMM THIS IS SOME GOOD PEE can't wait xp

He walked in on underage girls in a dressing room and bragged about it on Howard Stern. That’s worse than hiring prostitutes. Not to mention the horrifying account his first wife gave in the divorce deposition, which she never fully recanted.

He is scum and a gangster and none of it matters. Any actor would have had their show pulled for any one of these things.

Stfu xpost

Nothing is going to happen to him.

are you not excited for donalt trump piss tape neanderthal? what is wrong with you? here we like piss tape

Why do you still hang out here?

I want more contrarians but you’re so obnoxious and don’t even have allies on the boards.

what kind of contrarian would you like treeship

A better one

nakhchivan

i like sleepingbag, i am sleepingbag's ally

ppl on these threads for over a year now salivating over, unquenchably thirsty for a 'donald trump pee tape'... i'm not really sure if that's fixable through rational argument exactly

xp thank you, likewise

Pee tape is just a placeholder, really. Name a debased act and chances are better that Trump has engaged in it than that he has not. And, no, I don't think it makes any practical difference. The only chance the country had to survive the car crash of his election was to not steer into it, and welp.

I want Trump to choke on his own vomit for the next 35 years